History & Politics
See saw, sack-a-day
From The Nursery Rhymes of England, collected by J. O. Halliwell (London: Warne; first ed. 1842; this printing 1886)
History & Politics
See saw, sack-a-day;
Monmouth is a pretie boy,
Richmond is another,
Grafton is my onely joy,
And why should I these three destroy,
To please a pious brother!
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Codex Note
Halliwell's class: Historical. [Taken from MS. Douce, 357, fol. 124. See Echard's 'History of England,' book iii, chap. 1.]
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